Brian Kalkbrenner’s Foul Feelings is the closest thing in English, spiritually, to haiku that I can possibly think of.
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The Actual Voice of Someone Else: Philip Levine’s “News of the World”
News of the World certainly offers some typical-feeling moves to those familiar with Levine’s oeuvres, it also contains formal variations and preoccupations that will amuse and surprise both his admirers and those who don’t yet know his work.
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Innocent Brilliance: James Schuyler’s Other Flowers
James Schuyler is back from the dead with the lovely “Other Flowers” a posthumous book of his unpublished, uncollected poems.
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Some Notes on Translations of Horace
If you are a poet writing in English, you carry Horace in your own voice.
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“A Map of Itself”: Language and Representation in Caroline Knox’s Nine Worthies
Nine Worthies is something of a Tower of Babel: multifarious in diction, opulent in detail, complex in meaning and, finally it seems, reaching toward the heavens.